UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in targeted attack, gunman still at large
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Thompson, who led the largest private insurer in the U.S., was set to attend UnitedHealth Group's investor day, which the company canceled.
  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    22 days ago

    So one way or another I’m happy CEO dude is dead and I want to stress that I am completely unqualified to make any sort of criminal assessment or profile of this situation. That said, if I’m right I want to say I called it so:

    Looking at the footage I’ve seen I can’t shake the growing feeling that as much as I’d love this to be someone doing an adventurism it actually kinda reads like a professional hit job. Most footage I’ve seen of political assassinations done for personal reasons (political or otherwise) don’t seem like they’re so cleanly executed (he fucking double taped) and they don’t seem to get away so cleanly if they even try to run in the first place.

    I could be totally off base but all I’m saying is: if this guy was an Amateur doing Adventurism…hot damn he made it look good. Mad props.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      22 days ago

      I am completely unqualified to make any sort of criminal assessment or profile of this situation.

      No one on Hexbear, including myself, has ever considered that an obstacle.

    • knightly [none/use any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      22 days ago

      It doesn’t read like a professional hit to me, more like a vendetta by someone with a background in the military, intelligence, or organized crime.

      A professional hitman wouldn’t use subsonic 9mm on an unmodified glock. They’d pick a .45 and mod the gun to cycle properly on -P ammo.